Library of latin america the posthumous memoirs of br s cubas

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Machado de Assis (1839-1908) is considered the pre-eminent writer of Brazil, but his work has only recently become known to the English-speaking world. This new translation of Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, first published in 1881, now brings Machado de Assis's sardonic wit and keen appreciation of human foibles to a much larger audience.



"Be aware that frankness is the prime virtue of a dead man," writes the extraordinary narrator of The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas. "The gaze of public opinion, that sharp and judgmental gaze, loses its virtue the moment we tread the territory of death. I'm not saying that it doesn't reach here and examine and judge us, but we don't care about the examination or the judgment. My dear living gentlemen and ladies, there's nothing as incommensurable as the disdain of the deceased." Indeed, writing his memoirs from the other world gives Bras Cubas a certain freedom from both social and literary conventions. And while he may be dead, he is surely one of the liveliest characters in fiction, a product of one of the most remarkable imaginations in all of literature, Brazil's greatest novelist of the nineteenth century, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. Famous in his lifetime and still revered throughout Latin America, Machado de Assis has remained little known in the English-speaking world. He represents an important antecedent for the experimental fictions of Borges, Cortazar, Fuentes, and others. In this wildly inventive book, de Assis is, in fact, much closer to such postmodern masters as Calvino, Kundera, and Marquez than to the conventions of the nineteenth century realist and romantic novel, which the narrator continually and hilariously mocks. Irrepressibly whimsical, irreverent, chatty, and charmingly self-absorbed, Bras Cubas is forever intruding into his narrative, questioning, lecturing, and elbowing the reader, commenting on his writing and its highly unusual style--"this book and my style are like drunkards, they stagger left and right, they walk and stop, mumble, yell, cackle, shake their fists at the sky, stumble, and fall"--congratulating himself on particular chapters, wondering whether to cut others out, and interrupting his life story with all manner of digressions, from a philosophical discourse on the purpose of the nose to a visionary ride on the back of a rhinoceros to find the origin of the centuries. Along the way we're treated to a marvelous cast of characters, including the outlandish philosopher Quincas Borcas, who asserts that "asceticism is the perfection of human idiocy," and Virgilia, the beautiful married woman with whom Bras Cubas carries on a passionate and not-so-secret love affair. By turns flippant and profound, The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas is the story of an unheroic man with half-hearted political ambitions, a harebrained idea for curing the world of melancholy, and a thousand quixotic theories unleashed from beyond the grave. It is a novel that has influenced generations of Latin American writers but remains refreshingly and unforgettably unlike anything written before or after it. Newly translated by Gregory Rabassa and superbly edited by Enylton de Sá Rego and Gilberto Pinheiro Passos, who provide an insightful introduction and afterword, this edition inaugurates Oxford's Library of Latin America series, and brings to English-speaking readers a literary delight of the highest order.

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The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

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a revelatory new translation of the playful incomparable masterpiece of one of the greatest black authors in the americasmachado de assis is not only brazil s most celebrated writer but also a writer of world stature in his masterpiece the 1881 novel the posthumous memoirs of br s cubas also t Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 besteld, morgen in huis .. MEER INFO

Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

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Machado de assis s iconic novel now considered a progenitor of twentieth century south american fiction is finally rendered as a stunningly modern work i passed away at two o clock in the afternoon on a friday in august in 1869 in my beautiful mansion in the catumbi district of the city s 2 - 3 weken .. MEER INFO

The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

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Joaquim maria machado de assis 1839 1908 was a writer considered by many critics scholars writers and readers to be the greatest name in brazilian literature machado de assis left a very extensive body of work the result of half a century of literary labor which includes plays poetry p Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Hardcover

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 19 februari 1998

Aantal pagina's: 240

Kaarten inbegrepen: Nee

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Machado de Assis

Tweede Auteur: Joachim Maria Machado de Assis

Co Auteur: Machado de Assis

Hoofdredacteur: Enylton de Sa Rego

Hoofduitgeverij: Oxford University Press Inc

Eerste Vertaler: Flora Thomson-Deveaux

Tweede Vertaler: Flora Thomson-Deveaux

AI-gegenereerd: Nee

Dyslexievriendelijk: Nee

Editie: New edition

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 147 mm

Product hoogte: 28 mm

Product lengte: 211 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 147 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 28 mm

Verpakking lengte: 211 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 386 g

eWaste: Nee

EAN: 9780195101690

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